Legal Opinion
John H. Balsewicz v. Phillip A. Kingston, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 6, 2005No. 04-2629PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
John Balsewicz was convicted in May 1991 of homicide and robbery. He unsuccessfully appealed his conviction and pursued various state post-conviction challenges before filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on October 20, 2003. The respondent moved to dismiss the petition as untimely and proeedurally barred. The district court granted the motion and dismissed the petition as untimely. We affirm.
I. Background
In the early morning of August 24, 1990, witnesses saw Balsewicz and another man, Garceia Coleman, chasing the victim, Richard Terry. Terry escaped his pursuers…
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